Racial profiling will not help in controlling Mumbai’s crime rate

There can be less ham-handed ways of controlling crime than racially profiling a section of people.

If some enterprising officer in the police force chooses to profile criminals gender-wise, most would be found to be men. So would the solution be to ask men to get out of particularly crime-prone areas of the city?

Cops now seem to be on the back foot but seniors in the force should identify the officer who had this brainwave.

Investigators must work a little harder and think of saner ways of tackling crime.